Dissertation Abstract: The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Japanese Addressee-Honorific Markers

Yamada, Akitaka

doi:10.1007/s13218-021-00717-7

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“…Examples are taken from (Miyagawa 2017). Recently, Yamada (2019) has described the availability of -mas-in a broader range of subordinated contexts under the complementizer -koto, as in ( 26), from (Yamada 2019).…”

Section: Root-insensitive Allocutive Morphemesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A third kind of variation is the surface position of the allocutive morpheme. In some languages such as Korean, morpheme ordering suggests a high surface position (Pak 2017), while in others, like Japanese, a much lower placement (Yamada 2019). The final kind of variation we consider is the form of the allocutive morpheme.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first of these is whether the allocutive morpheme is restricted to root contexts. While some initial models of allocutivity have characterized it as strictly a root clause phenomenon (Miyagawa 2013;Portner et al 2019), more recent work has described allocutive marking in embedded domains in some varieties including Magahi (Alok & Baker 2018;Alok 2021), Japanese (Yamada 2019) and Basque (Haddican & Etxeberria 2022). A second kind of variation across allocutive varieties less discussed in the recent literature concerns the kinds of left peripheral elements allocutive morphemes interact with.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A second kind of variation across allocutive varieties less discussed in the recent literature concerns the kinds of left peripheral elements allocutive morphemes interact with. In one class of allocutive languages, allocutivity interacts with clause typing features (Portner et al 2019), or C features (Yamada 2019;Miyagawa 2012;, while other varieties show no such interaction. A third kind of variation is the surface position of the allocutive morpheme.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The formal heterogeneity of allocutivity

Alok

Haddican

2022

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Despite recent growth in formal work on allocutive marking, little work to date has considered the nature of cross-linguistic differences in the syntax of allocutive varieties, and what relationships, if any, exist among them. This paper summarizes recent formal results describing four kinds of variation across allocutive languages: (i) variable root-sensitivity; (ii) variation in allocutive morpheme placement; (iii) differences in allocutive morpheme type; and (iv) variation in interactions with clause typing and complementizers. We propose that the sole formal property unifying allocutive varieties is exponence of addressee features licensed by a silent Addressee DP. We further propose that variation in the properties of allocutive morphemes considered here reflect four principal loci of variation: (i) the position in which the silent Addressee DP may participate in allocutivity; (ii) the variable presence of a projection introducing an allocutive pronoun; (iii) the variable non-silence of a bound allocutive pronoun and/or the head introducing the Addressee DP; and (iv) agreement with other C-field heads. The analysis suggests that allocutivity involves greater formal heterogeneity than has been described previously in the literature. Principal aspects of cross-linguistic variation nevertheless can be modeled in terms of a limited set of formal options elsewhere motivated.

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Section: Root-insensitive Allocutive Morphemesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The formal heterogeneity of allocutivity

Alok

Haddican

2022

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…Finally, the special issue includes abstracts of two recent PhD dissertations: in Learning High Precision Lexical Inferences [8], Vered Shwartz presents algorithms for recognizing semantic relations between words, and in The Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Japanese Addressee-Honorific Markers [10], Akitaka Yamada develops a discourse model in which the dimension regarding politeness-oriented expressions in Japanese is modeled as a Bayesian inference process.…”

Section: Dear Readermentioning

confidence: 99%